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Opera in three acts based on GOZZI's play
Libretto by HEINZ VON CRAMER English version by MARIA MASSEY PELIKAN
Music by Hans Werner Henze
Henze's operatic fairytale has all the classic ingredients - a handsome prince falling in love with a beautiful young girl, thwarted by a bad baron and helped by a good fairy. Right triumphs in the end....
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Repetiteur RICHARD NUNN
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
The action takes place in a southerly landscape - a kind of Venice between a forest and the sea.
Act 1 The Palace